Scored a 710 in 1st attempt

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Hey!

I scored a 710 on my 1st attempt at GMAT through self-study. This wouldn't have been possible without the articles and resources available on GMAT Club. I feel extremely grateful. Would love to help GMAT aspirants with any queries. Ping me up! Will try to reply to the queries asap.

debupal · Answer

congrats!
can you share your strategy and the resources that you used?

Pranayyerra · Answer

Hey congratulations!
I am giving my gmat on Nov 18
Could you please give your debrief and any tips if you have one?

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GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Gratz on the 700+. Consider writing a debrief in the Share GMAT Experience sub forum.

Pranayyerra

any tips if you have one

www.gmatknight.com/blog - > there are some tips there that may be helpful (i.e. 5 Verbal tips, 3 RC tips)

Russ19 · Answer

Congrats! How long did you study each day on the weekend and weekdays? How long did you take altogether to attain the score?

SalahT · Answer

congratulations! 710 is a great score to attain in first attempt. I have a question. Which percentile you are in with 710 score?

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Great job! Good luck with things moving forward.

nkothari1997 · Answer

Materials:
OG for QA and Verbal Aptitude
Manhattan for Verbal Aptitude--Since I am not a native English Speaker I decided to start right from the foundations. I went through the entire reading material on Verbal Aptitude by Manhattan.
Official mocks 
Manhattan Mocks

Strategy:

Take the diagnostic tests provided in the OG for identifying your weak areas. Work accordingly on the weak areas.

DON'T SKIP ANY OG QUESTIONS! -- Try extracting the most out of the OG questions.

Maintain an Error Log. Revisit the questions in the Error Log once you are done with practicing all the OG questions.

For SC nothing beats the OG. Go through the explanations thoroughly. Understand why certain options are incorrect. Even if you get the answer right check whether you were able to discern all the reasons that made the other options incorrect. Keep notes on the same too.

Practice the daily questions posted on the GMAT club. Solve the questions with the GMAT Timer. This will help you with the time management part of the exam.

After a few months of practice, you will get better at recognizing topics that you are weak at. Utilize this link(
gmatclub.com/forum/search.php?view=search_tags) to filter questions from your weak areas and practice until you get 90-95% accuracy. Also, sort the questions by the number of kudos. Good quality questions will have a higher number of kudos.

For QA I went through the OG Material. I also bought the Manhattan Mocks. But I think Manhattan's QA questions are tougher than the official questions. So don't be discouraged if you are not scoring well in QA on the Manhattan Mocks.

Please practice the official mocks in a proper test environment.

Utilize GMAT Club in case you cannot understand the explanation for a question. Go through the explanations posted by the experts. Don't restrict yourself to reading the 1st explanation. There are multiple ways to solve a question. Make sure to go through the first three explanations, if not all.

I cannot emphasize this enough-Please make the most out of the GmatClub. You will find the answers to all your queries here. If you are having difficulty with certain topics look for discussions on how people who had been in a similar situation tackled the same.

Hope this helps!

(I scored a Q46 and V42. Overall 710-91 Percentile)

100mitra · Answer

Amazing !
Congratulations 💐💐💐

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Russ19 · Answer

nkothari1997 
Did you go through any materials for RC apart from OG passages?

nkothari1997 · Answer

Other than OG I practiced RC's through the questions posted on The GmatClub and the mocks.

Papai21 · Answer

Congratulations!!
Very inspirational.

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